faragon

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by faragon 10y ago
Despite the politics, and crazy economics, China future looks amazing, because of the huge of human potential. If I were 20 years younger, and having the possibility of an interesting job in software programming, I would go to Shanghai or S
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by faragon 10y ago
Unix is OK. That article is bullshit, in my opinion.
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by faragon 10y ago
Sure, you don't need economy of scale if economy of subsistence is enough for you.
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by faragon 10y ago
Sure. There are places like e.g. North Korea where "rich corporations" don't abuse the "poor". In my opinion "rich corporations" are necessary, because Civilization requires economy of scale. And because c
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by faragon 10y ago
Title should be: "Benchmarking OS X semaphores vs message passing". Shared memory + spinlocks should be much faster than shared memory + semaphores (much faster, if implemented properly, e.g. spinlock + timeout, on timeout queue a
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by faragon 10y ago
The US is a country of freedom [1], I have no doubt. And I would like citizens, and residents in general, get as much freedom as possible. I hope it stays free, so everyone could enjoy their people and their cool stuff, for mutual fun and p
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by faragon 10y ago
That's not an incentive for visiting the US as tourist, nor for business. I would expect that from North Korea, and not from "the land of freedom", unless foreigners are not considered human beings anymore there.
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by faragon 10y ago
As a hobby project I'm writing a VM based on VLIW opcodes, so an interpreter written in C (and in assembly for few popular architectures) could run reasonably fast without requiring JIT (i.e. instead of fetching one instruction per ite
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by faragon 10y ago
In my opinion, IT reaction is not wise. No matter if this comes after acquisition negotiation, or not, who is going to engage with IT in another long term partnership with such level of reaction? (not sure if it could be qualified as bullyi
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by faragon 10y ago
Base 2 floating point is perfectly OK. The problem is people using floating point not knowing that IEE754 floating point representation is binary, and not decimal, so most decimal constants will not have an exact match. Said that, many impl
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by faragon 10y ago
Wikileaks is an organization built to destabilize the US government. Romantic and idealist stuff aside, they are playing the role of "useful idiot" for other intelligence agencies. And that is very dangerous.
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by faragon 10y ago
That's not user friendly. E.g. hard to understand for most parents or grandparents.
523.
by faragon 10y ago
American robots will make America great again, not protectionism, I guess.
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by faragon 10y ago
Loving Ubuntu myself, I would like a system not requiring command line stuff for fixing things, so everyone could use and maintain it, not just experts (e.g. a "fix my computer" button that in worst case it could reinstall everyth
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by faragon 10y ago
Looks like Game Maker (a tool for creating video games using scripting). Very interesting stuff. Anyone knows if other ports of TLV, e.g. SNES, use the same virtual machine?
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by faragon 10y ago
20 years ago, as student, I took Expert Systems (rule-based) and "Bioinformatics" (neural networks, backpropagation stuff, now called "deep learning") courses, and it was like Expert Systems based on rules -with or witho
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by faragon 10y ago
Amazing project! :-D
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by faragon 10y ago
In most European countries drug prices are negotiated at scale, because of public institution negotiating directly with pharmaceutical companies (most expensive drugs are the ones in international shortage, e.g. hepatitis C drugs, etc.). So
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by faragon 10y ago
How it compares to massive swapping to typical SSD?
530.
by faragon 10y ago
Brainfuck port, anyone? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
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by faragon 10y ago
Another reason: C is beautiful.
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by faragon 10y ago
Java had built-in many features that C++ didn't (e.g. threading, mutexes, timers, sockets, etc.)
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by faragon 10y ago
Is there any study analyzing performance between H-1B tech workers and remote tech workers? (i.e. how being in the same building or working in different time zone affects planning and performance)
534.
by faragon 10y ago
Advantages, and... disadvantages? I would like to know if there are disadvantages as well, e.g. less social skills, etc.
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by faragon 10y ago
Sure. That's the point of using external screens (e.g. dumb "docking stations", converting any phone into a laptop).
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by faragon 10y ago
There will be no end, until everything gets into the smartphone, in my opinion. Tablets are in decadence, and laptops will fall dramatically once convenient operating system support for external screen appear (e.g. a la Windows 10) on Andro
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by faragon 10y ago
Sure. That was my point, no pun intended.
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by faragon 10y ago
I guess Amazon has a software problem: when sorting by price instead of "relevance", both off-topic items and scammer/counterfeit stuff appear. Hint: filter novel sellers selling below market price.
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by faragon 10y ago
C++ is becoming Java.
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by faragon 10y ago
"Perhaps the most exciting thing was that we decided to add the std::byte type" So "std::byte" is not a character ("std::char") nor arithmetic ("std::int8_t/uint8_t"), but allows bitwise operatio

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